Western cyclone., 1887-10-07

Condensed Reports or the Latest News
from All Parts or the State.

The new court house at Lyndon
is about completed
Many artesian wells are being
bored in western Kansas.
An Eldorado man has y sunfower
plant that has lS7 flowers on IL
"A weekly newspaper in the Welsh
language will be published at Emp oria.
The farmers of Wichita county
have nominated ticket of their own
The Knights of Pythias at Scran
ton, Usage county. are building hall
Lawrence has refused to vote
$1,000 10 help the Santa Fe build .
new railroad.
The fair association at Independ-
ence report that the fair, financially.
was success.
Topeka has $5,OO0.0O0 in public
buildings, railroads. manufactures and
Street Improvements.
1t is claimed that the big well Of
the water-workS at Garden City, which
is Isl feet deep, will supply 100000
gallons daily.
Montgomery county is rejoicing
in its largest wheat yield on record
and the promise OF surplusage Of
two million bushels of corn.
An explosion at the Armour
packing house in Kansas City wrecked
the rendering tank and ice machine.
Damage, $4,000. Killing will be sus.
pended four or five days.
"A large $4,000 building, an add
ton to the deaf and dumb institute ct
Olathe. is in course Of construction,
and will soon be ready for use.
The business men of Atchison
have decided TO make a survey for the
projected Atchison and Lawrence rail-
road, and have raised the money for
the purpose.
Henry Richter. a stone mason.
was instantly killed at Lawrence by
unknown negroes. At 7:30 o'clock he
passed a squad of negroes on Cherokee.
street and be- Ane engaged in an alter
cation, when he was seen to fall. Tho
negroes hurried away. When Richter
was picked up he WAS dead, his throat
being cut, evidently with razor.
The finding Of twenty ght inch
vein of coal in the river shaft at .
depth OF 40 feet was celebrated by .
mammoth trades procession five miles
long. People from the neighboFing
town and villages thronged the streets,
and the day was one Of general re-
joicH,. Six hundred miners were In
the line. A charter was granted
another company today to sink :
fourth mine in West Leavenworth.
j. 4. Stewart, at Wichita, was
sentenced TO seventeen years and four
months in the county jail and fined
/ $20, 800, and costs of prosecution, for
the violation of the Prohibition law.
He was clerk in the West End drug
store, and pleaded guilty TO an indict-
ment containing 1850 counts 1T the
same time as did Herman, the pro-
prietor of the place. The latter cannot
be found, and it is thought that he has
left the country. The punishment
imposed upon Stewart is the heaviest
ever given in the state for the viola
ton of the liquor laws.
William II. Raddell is a man that
was imported from Platte county,
Missouri, To Leavenworth for the pur-
pose of aiding the metropolitan police
i'll suppressing the whisky trafic.
After playing the informer In citizens
clothes he was a week ago regularly
appointed on the force, and Monday
evening while in full uniform got
drunk, and with female companion
drove furiously about the city. dis
charging his revolver on one Of the
principal streets. He was arrested
and yesterday morning was fined -
for drunkenness. $40 for dlscharging
firearms, and sentenced 70 ninety days
in the county Jail.
The testimony before the Coro-
ner's jury at Leavenworth relative TO
the killing OF Henry Richter well nigh
conclusively fixes the deed upen the
three Drake brothers. The trousers
that were found in their house covered
with blood, and which they claimed
came from a chicken that one Of them
had killed. was proven by three ply
sicians 10 be stained with human
blood. The knife with which Richtef's
throat was cut was also found In theiE
house. and woman with whom
Walter Drake kept company swors
that he said TO her that = DutcamAx
assaulted his brother in the afternoon
: and that they had done him up
This statement was made two OF thFes
hours after the murdered Richter bad
been discovered A heavy guard has
been placed about the city Jail 10 pie
vent any attempt At lynching tina
. nav be made.